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Administration Guide

Organization of the guide

Organization of the guide

The FortiPAM Administration Guide contains the following sections:

  • FortiPAM installation describes basic setup information for getting started with your FortiPAM.
  • Licensing describes how to register, download, and upload your FortiPAM-VM license.
  • Dashboard contains widgets providing performance and status information.
  • Folders describes features and options related to folders where secrets reside.
  • Secrets describes features and options related to secrets, secret launchers, secret templates, policies, SSH filter profiles, and jobs.
  • Monitoring contains information on user logins and active sessions on FortiPAM.
  • User management describes managing FortiPAM user database.
  • Approval request describes how to send a secret approval request, review a request, and create approval profiles when approval from the members of an approval profile is required to launch a secret or perform a job on a secret.
  • Password changing describes creating password policies, character sets used in password policies, and password changers used to periodically change the password of a secret.
  • Authentication describes creating addresses, address groups, IPv6 address template, authentication rules, and schemes.
  • System describes managing and configuring basic system settings for FortiPAM. It also contains settings related to firmware, SNMP, HA, certificates, ZTNA, and automatic backup.
  • Network describes configuring interfaces, DNS settings, packet capture, and static routes.
  • Security profile describes configuring FortiPAM security features.
  • Security fabric describes creating fabric connectors to provide integration with Fortinet products.
  • Log & report describes how to view logs and reports on FortiPAM.

Organization of the guide

The FortiPAM Administration Guide contains the following sections:

  • FortiPAM installation describes basic setup information for getting started with your FortiPAM.
  • Licensing describes how to register, download, and upload your FortiPAM-VM license.
  • Dashboard contains widgets providing performance and status information.
  • Folders describes features and options related to folders where secrets reside.
  • Secrets describes features and options related to secrets, secret launchers, secret templates, policies, SSH filter profiles, and jobs.
  • Monitoring contains information on user logins and active sessions on FortiPAM.
  • User management describes managing FortiPAM user database.
  • Approval request describes how to send a secret approval request, review a request, and create approval profiles when approval from the members of an approval profile is required to launch a secret or perform a job on a secret.
  • Password changing describes creating password policies, character sets used in password policies, and password changers used to periodically change the password of a secret.
  • Authentication describes creating addresses, address groups, IPv6 address template, authentication rules, and schemes.
  • System describes managing and configuring basic system settings for FortiPAM. It also contains settings related to firmware, SNMP, HA, certificates, ZTNA, and automatic backup.
  • Network describes configuring interfaces, DNS settings, packet capture, and static routes.
  • Security profile describes configuring FortiPAM security features.
  • Security fabric describes creating fabric connectors to provide integration with Fortinet products.
  • Log & report describes how to view logs and reports on FortiPAM.